Sarah Botstein has for more than two decades produced some of the most widely-watched and acclaimed documentaries on PBS. Her work, in collaboration with directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, includes ...

That is no mean feat for a man whose work looked head-on at the Civil War, Vietnam and the Holocaust. Wherever we went, Burns was met with adoration. Two days before his speech at Colonial ...

There’s a neon sign in Ken Burns’ editing room that reads, “It’s complicated.” Even the prolific documentarian, who spends more time than most exploring the difficult truths of our nation’s history, ...

When it comes to war, some things never change. Though we may battle on new ground and with new weapons, there is always the fact of the fighting — and the fact that stories of war, in all their ...

A talk featuring documentary filmmaker Ken Burns at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has sold out more than two months ahead of the event.

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...